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How to have strong and flexible ankles like Bamboo

Wearing modern footwear leads to loss of mobility in your ankle, shortening of your calf muscles, loss of elasticity in your Achilles tendons...

And all this affects your ability to react when walking or running.

Have you suffered a sprained ankle?

do you have poor balance?

Or have you sprained your foot going down a step?

A sprained ankle is one of the most common injuries. Whether you do sport or not.

And the worst thing is that, if you don't recover properly, it's likely to happen again.

To prevent this from happening, there is a simple and fun way to improve your stability and keep your ankles strong. Use an unstable platform.

Like the Pielaster.

Why?

• Because it will take your ankles to the next level. Its unique oval shape allows for a greater range of motion than other platforms. Getting even more out of them.

• Because you'll eliminate stiffness in your feet. Once you include the Pielaster in your daily routine you will improve the elasticity of the joints and muscles in your feet.

• Because you will get a better quality of life. You will move more safely and more responsively, having full control on any slope, whether in the city or in the mountains. Whether you are 30, 50 or 70 years old.

• Because it is so easy to use that a child can do it. You can use it with both feet for more control from the start, or with just one foot to increase the challenge of controlling your balance. Or even sitting down if you're recovering from an injury.

• Because you'll have fun using it alone or with your family. Challenge yourself, play and have fun without fear of falling. It's part of the process. Keep your balance while someone else tries to unbalance you, or catch a ball thrown to you. You can also combine it with elastic bands, weights or other accessories.

How to increase (and accelerate) its benefits even further

Combine it with daily use of respectful shoes with a wide last and thin soles.

This will bring your feet closer to the ground and give them more contact surface. Giving you greater stability with every step.

What exercises can you do with the Pielaster

You will find the main exercises inside your Pielaster. Some of these exercises are in the Barefoot-Minimalist Running Guide, as well as many others that will help you to wake up and strengthen your feet.

It is best to use the Pielaster without shoes, barefoot, so that the transmission of your strength and control is direct.

Features of the Pielaster unstable platform

• Consists of 2 exactly equal pieces that follow the contour of the foot and allow a 360° undulating rotation.

• Non-slip foam top surface, so that it can be used barefoot, allowing direct force transmission and greater ranges of movement without slipping.

• Its shape enables specific ranges of movement for the ankle joint, which enriches the sensation of the tendon and muscle receptors and promotes the acquisition of a more correct body schema at this level.

• Its regular use significantly improves all the musculature of the lower leg: calf muscles (internal and external), soleus, tibialis, peroneus, flexors, etc.

• The double point of support that is achieved makes it easy to maintain balance and perform flexion-extension, lateralisation and ankle circumduction exercises, which can be complicated as training allows, by closing the eyes or limiting support to one foot only.

• Different lever lengths. The fact that the Pielaster is oval-shaped and not round, results in different lever lengths for different movements. In this way the tensions generated in the movement are in accordance with the muscular strength of the muscles involved in the movement itself.

• It facilitates balance training which can be trained by providing varied stimuli from the feet that require very rapid correction to avoid loss of balance.

• According to a research study by Carolyn A. Emery et al. entitled Effectiveness of a home-based balance-training program in reducing sports-related injuries among healthy adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled trial, a training programme based on the use of an unstable platform at home leads to a significant improvement in balance, both static and dynamic, as well as a reduction in sports-related injuries in young adolescents.

• Pantendum.

Pielaster: Strong, reactive and stable ankles.